Very well put and I co-sign 10^infinity
Very well put and I co-sign 10^infinityowl said:The problem really is society...Blacks are second class citizenz in a land of Bill Gates, the rich Blacks are looked upon as the exception not the rule, throw in the drug culture and gang culture nationwide in areas where mainly blakcs livbe and so now since the mid-seventies black children shun education and all things equated with being a "square" or "lame"...children seek to be seen and heard so they chase popularity and respect...unfortunately in the metro area that consist of being violent, rude, disrespectful, overly aggressive, irresponsible, anti anything that would garner you the title of positive contributing citizen...every neighborhood I have lived in city wise has upstanding citizens, success stories considering the environment, but doctors and lawyers don't make rap songs, they don't have videos that applaud their actions, they aren't being heard in rotation all day every day on the radio...couple all that with the fact that many teens do have strong father figures, it just so happens that those figures aren't positively contributing, so to speak, i don't know of any real drug dealer or gang member who wasn't around an uncle or older brother or cousin who wasn't also a drug dealer or gang member, these children are being raised to promote a culture of ignorance and aggression, mothers aren't putting their sons in chess club, they aren't putting their daughters in etiquette schools...the concept is laughable in a discussion with them...one brother told me after I said don't smoke weed around the children, that I was acting like a "county boy," a sister, with a bachelor's and working on a master's at a prestigious university said I was "acting funny" because I don't smoke weed anymore...This is the culture that is representing us internationally and we wonder why the incarceration rates are so high, not only have we not fully climbed out of the slump of slavery, we look at our children as animals to be trained and sent to the fields, instead of our future presidents and scientist...
YBO